Godlike Quotes · Page 2

We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.

— Juliet Marillier

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

— Francois Rabelais

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

— Horace Mann

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

— Laurie Anderson

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.

— Wilbur Smith

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

— Diogenes

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.

— Russell Shorto

We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more godlike, that we do not become discouraged and lose hope.

— Ezra Taft Benson

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

— Abraham Maslow

“She turned. A young man of godlike proportions* was standing in the doorway. *The better class of gods, anyway. Not the ones…

— Terry Pratchett

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the…

— J. G. Holland

Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and…

— Thomas Otway

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this…

— Thomas Carlyle

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his…

— Charles Lindbergh

A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding,…

— John Muir

We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life…

— John Steinbeck

The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a…

— China Mieville

I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher…

— Anthony Kiedis

Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all…

— Plotinus

I believe in a passionately strong feeling for the poetry of life - for the beautiful, the mysterious, the romantic, the ecstatic…

— Leopold Stokowski

For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything…

— Chris Hemsworth

...though every thinking being longs for God, the First Cause, it is powerless... to grasp Him. Tired with the yearning it chafes…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered,…

— James Howard Kunstler

I think all human beings have a godlike, divine power, only most of us don't tap into it.

— Ruby Dee

One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.

— Thomas Carlyle

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

— Nick Cave

Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant…

— Charles Lindbergh

Every time we watch over one another, godlike qualities of love, patience, kindness, generosity, and spiritual commitment fill the souls of those…

— Bonnie D. Parkin

We expect our leaders to be godlike. But I feel that when people try to sanctify leadership, it puts it out of…

— Katori Hall

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the…

— Friedrich Schiller

“Whatever gods there be, there is something godlike in man, as there is also something of the devil in him.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike…

— David O. McKay

It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. [Ger., Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen Aber gottlich zu verzeihn.]

— Peter Winter

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be…

— Nick Cave

Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentlene ss that is effeminate, and there is a…

— Jerry Bridges

You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you…

— Marilynne Robinson

Only let us love God, and then nature will compass us about like a cloud of Divine witnesses; and all influences from…

— William Mountford